FM groups participating in Day of Remembrance

Saturday

FORT MADISON - A memorial service for aborted fetuses will take place today.

The service, part of the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, will take place at 10 a.m. at Gethsemane Cemetery, a quarter mile south of Rodeo Park.

"Every single victim of abortion was a unique and irreplaceable human being whose life was cut short in its earliest weeks at the hands of an abortionist," said Joe Peitz, one of the organizers of the Fort Madison event.

Knights of Columbus Council 739 of Fort Madison and Lee County Right to Life are sponsoring the event at the Memorial to the Unborn.

The K of C will lead a rosary as Right to Life lays a wreath at the grave. The public is invited to join together at this occasion to pray for an end to abortion rights.

Nationally, the Day of Remembrance is organized by three anti-abortion groups - Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Priests for Life and the Pro-Life Action League - to humanize unborn fetuses. The Sept. 14 date was chosen for the event because it marks the 25th anniversary of the burial of several hundred fetuses in Milwaukee, Wis.

For more information, contact Peitz at (319) 470-8702.

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